Welcome to the Fall 2015 CMSC 491 course webpage!

Course Info

• Lectures: 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  Location: Engineering East Hall 1232.
  Textbook: Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.
• Midterm exam: Thursday, October 8, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, in class (E1232).
  Final exam: Thursday, December 10, 1-3:50 pm, in class (E1232).
  
• Instructor: Dr. Sevag Gharibian
  Email: sgharibian at vcu dot edu
  Webpage: www.people.vcu.edu/~sgharibian/
  Office: E4240
  Office Hours: TR 9:30 am - 10:30 am
  
• Teaching Assistants:
  
  Daniel Marino
  Email: marinodl at mymail dot vcu dot edu
  Office: E2262
  Office Hours: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm M
  
  Seyran Saeedi
  Email: saeedis at vcu dot edu
  Office: E4237
  Office Hours: 10:30-11:30 Th
  

Announcements

• December 7, 2015
  Solutions for A8 and A9 have been posted to Blackboard.
• November 24, 2015
  A9 has been posted and is due Thursday, December 3.
• November 12, 2015
  Solutions for A7 have been posted to Blackboard.
• November 9, 2015
  A8 has been posted and is due Tuesday, November 17 in class.
• November 3, 2015
  Solutions to A6 have been posted on Blackboard.
• October 26, 2015
  A7 has been posted and is due Tuesday, November 3.
• October 16, 2015
  A6 has been posted and is due Tuesday, October 27.
• October 9, 2015
  Grades for A4 and the midterm have been posted to Blackboard, as well as the midterm solutions.
• October 1, 2015
  A minor update to A5 has been posted, as well as the course notes for Deutsch's algorithm.
• September 18, 2015
  A5 has been posted and is due Tuesday, October 6. The solutions to A4 are now available on Blackboard.
• September 11, 2015
  A4 has been posted and is due Thursday, September 17. The solutions to A3 are now available on Blackboard.
• September 8, 2015
  An update to Lectures Notes 3 has been posted.
• September 4, 2015
  A1 grades and A2 solutions have been posted on Blackboard.
• September 2, 2015
  Lecture 3 notes have been posted. Also, Assignment 3 has been posted, and is due Thursday September 10 in class.
• August 28, 2015
  Assignment 2 has been posted, and is due Thursday September 3 in class.
• August 26, 2015
  Lecture notes for Lecture 2 have been posted (see link to Syllabus and Reading above).
• August 25, 2015
  An update to A1 has been posted. Please download the latest version!
• August 21, 2015
  The midterm date is set for Thursday, October 8, in class (see info above).
• August 4, 2015
  Course notes for the first lecture have been posted under the Syllabus tab. The first assignment has also been posted under the Assignment tab. Both of these are primarily a review of basic Linear Algebra, which is important for the remainder of the course.
• August 2, 2015
  Welcome to CMSC 491! At the top of this page, you'll find links to pages for announcements, the course syllabus and suggested reading for each class, Blackboard (where the course discussion group resides), and the VCU Quantum Computing Lab. Please have a look at the Assignments tab and the discussion on bonus marks for using LaTeX!